Some passages from modern history, by the author of 'Letters to my unknown friends'.
Author : Sydney Warburton
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 1848
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Author : Sydney Warburton
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 1848
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Author : Johann Lorenz Mosheim
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Page : 590 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Church history
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Author : Henry Steele Commager
Publisher : ACLS History E-Book Project
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
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ISBN : 9781628200898
An overview of the nature and methods of history as a field in social science, written for educators.
Author : Alison Winter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0226902587
Picture your 21st birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? How clear are these memories? Should we trust them? Such questions have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and, as Alison Winter shows in this book, the answers have changed dramatically in just the past century.
Author : Agnes Strickland
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 1868
Category : History, Modern
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Author : Carl E. Schorske
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 140086478X
In this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Siécle Vienna--draws together a series of essays that reveal the changing place of history in nineteenth-and twentieth-century cultures. In most intellectual and artistic fields, Schorske argues, twentieth-century Europeans and Americans have come to do their thinking without history. Modern art, modern architecture, modern music, modern science--all have defined themselves not as emerging from or even reacting against the past, but as detached from it in a new, autonomous cultural space. This is in stark contrast to the historicism of the nineteenth century, he argues, when ideas about the past pervaded most fields of thought from philosophy and politics to art, music, and literature. However, Schorske also shows that the nineteenth century's attachment to thinking with history and the modernist way of thinking without history are more than just antitheses. They are different ways of trying to address the problems of modernity, to give shape and meaning to European civilization in the era of industrial capitalism and mass politics. Schorske begins by reflecting on his own vocation as it was shaped by the historical changes he has seen sweep across political and academic culture. Then he offers a European sampler of ways in which nineteenth-century European intellectuals used conceptions of the past to address the problems of their day: the city as community and artifact; the function of art; social dislocation. Narrowing his focus to Fin-de-Siécle Vienna in a second group of essays, he analyzes the emergence of ahistorical modernism in that city. Against the background of Austria's persistent, conflicting Baroque and Enlightenment traditions, Schorske examines three Viennese pioneers of modernism--Adolf Loos, Gustav Mahler, and Sigmund Freud--as they sought new orientation in their fields. In a concluding essay, Schorske turns his attention to thinking about history. In the context of a postmodern culture, when other disciplines that had once abandoned history are discovering new uses for it, he reflects on the nature and limits of history for the study of culture. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : William Smyth
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 1841
Category : History, Modern
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Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 1908
Category : History, Modern
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Author : Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1416531785
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.
Author : Thomas Arnold
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Page : 340 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 1845
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